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Isis has gone from magical, feminist name on the rise to the forbidden list because of the extremist terror group called ISIS, an acronym for Islamic State of Iraq and Syria .

Before the rise of the political group, Isis was best known as the name of the supreme Egyptian goddess of the moon, sky, magic, motherhood and fertility, revived by feminists and others willing to cross into arcane territory. And with the mini-craze for names that start with Is- -- Isabella, Isla -- it was not so surprising that Isis was joining the I crowd.

The ancient Isis, wife of Osiris (who happened to be her brother), was worshiped beyond Egypt into the Greco-Roman world. According to myth, the Nile river floods every year because of Isis's tears of sorrow for the death of Osiris.

Isis first entered the U.S. Top 1000 in 1994 and is now at Number 575, while she's in the Top 75 in the Netherlands. But we expect her standing to plummet in years to come as her identification shifts to the group that has beheaded several journalists and aid workers.

In popular culture, Isis has been a character on Stargate and Battleship Galactica, an opera, the title of a BobDylan song and the name of several rock bands.